How can we improve our diagnostic accuracy in Urgent Care? Dr Matt Wright tells us how frameworks and clinical support tools can help us improve our diagnostic accuracy and ultimately the quality of the care we deliver.
How do you manage an uncomplicated boxers fracture?
How do you manage an uncomplicated boxers fracture?
For patients with vague symptoms including headache and lethargy, don’t forget to think Carbon Monoxide poisoning.
Acute flares of Eczema are a common presenting complaint to Urgent Care. We speak with Dr Amanda Oakley, Consultant Dermatologist, Adjunct Associate Professor at Auckland University and the Founder of www.dermnetnz.org about why eczema flares and how those flares should be managed.
Tranexamic acid use in Head Injury – it is worth reading this recent paper from the Lancet and some of the blogs that discuss it.
A sharpie can provide great continuity of care when managing pre-tibial flap lacerations.
Urticaria causes patients to present to Urgent Care Clinics. We hear from Dr Amanda Oakley, Consultant Dermatologist, an Adjunct Associate Professor at Auckland University and the Founder of Dermnet NZ about how it should be managed.
Moonboots are not benign devices and should be prescribed with the same thought and consideration as you would a medication.
Recorded for the recent inaugural Urgent Care Boot Camp, these 2 bites run back to back and look at injuries associated with being at a Boot Camp (the Military sort, not the Medical sort!)